**LENIN COLLECTION**

Dear Comrades!

I am very well aware of the shortcomings of my excessively brief article against Kautsky. But nonetheless, we must take a position as quickly as possible, express our opinion. I earnestly request that you translate it and publish it as a leaflet.

10/X 1918.
Lenin

1 L. M. Karakhan — Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
2 The reference is to the article "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky" (see Works, 4th ed., vol. 28, pp. 85–93).
3 Y. A. Berzin — Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Switzerland. V. V. Borovskii — Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in the Scandinavian countries.

## DIRECTIVE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES

2 November 1918

In view of several cases of [constant]* interference by local authorities in the economic and administrative functions of the management of nationalised enterprises, and observed cases of alienation of national property from individual enterprises to satisfy local needs, which disorganises their economy and deprives enterprise management of the possibility to conduct work in a planned manner, [the Council of People's Commissars resolved:] I repeat insistently with a warning regarding strictest responsibility in case of non-compliance: nationalised enterprises are the common property of the Soviet Republic, and responsibility for their economic management rests with enterprise management; therefore, local authorities have no right (unless it has been granted them by special decrees of the Central authorities) to interfere in their dispositions and alienate any property whatsoever of nationalised enterprises without the permission of the higher organs of administration of the given branch of production.

Chairman, CPC V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original,
corrected and signed
by V. I. Lenin

* Corrections and additions made by V. I. Lenin are printed in bold type; deletions made by him are printed in small type.

1917–1918

## DIRECTION TO SECRETARY¹

[November 1918, not before the 21st]

Telephone the content of the complaint to the housing department of the Moscow Soviet and inquire what they will do in response to the complaint.

This direction was made by V. I. Lenin in connection with a complaint received from residents of one of the houses in the Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow regarding the requisition of the house and their eviction.

## ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE CC RCP(b)
CONCERNING THE CONVOCATION OF AN ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS
OF BANK EMPLOYEES

[1918, before 6 December]

Immediate congress of bank employees (of both unions) within 10 days, with parity commissions for convocation of the congress¹.

Similar parity commissions for verification, exposure, and disclosure of sabotage.

Immediate and urgent assignment to groups of leading bank workers of specific, meticulously defined practical tasks in the sphere of work on the nationalisation of banks, with the appointment of a short deadline for completion of the tasks.

¹ The reference is to the creation of parity commissions for convocation of the congress of bank employees, which was to create, in place of two professional unions — the All-Russian Professional Union of Workers in Credit Affairs (Banktrud) and the union of employees of the People's Bank (Banksotrud) — a single union of workers in banking. The congress of bank employees took place in early January 1919.

## NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

8. XII. 1918

Dear V. D.!

I am sending you a pamphlet on the enforcement of laws². Compose a heading that is clearer, brighter, more powerful.

And publish it as quickly as possible.

Your Lenin

¹ The reference is to a pamphlet in which was printed a resolution of the VI All-Russian Extraordinary Congress of Soviets on the question of enforcement of laws. The pamphlet was published in 1919 under the heading "Enforce the Laws of the Soviet Republic!".

## LETTER TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

21. XII. 1918

To the VChK
Comrade Dzerzhinsky!

I enclose a complaint.

I request that you by all means locate the person guilty of the delay (from 3.XII to 20.XII without a response!! And the decree of 21.XI!!!¹) and bring him to trial. Such an outrage cannot be left unpunished. Evidently there are saboteurs in the office.

Furthermore, you must appoint a responsible person for swift, immediate transfer of the warehouses.

Report what you have done.

Greetings!

Your Lenin

¹ The reference is to delays in the transfer to Narkomprод of warehouses containing products of industrial and handicraft production that were under the jurisdiction of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission. This transfer was to take place on the basis of the decree on supply organisation adopted on 21 November 1918 by the Council of People's Commissars. On 3 December 1918, Narkomprод proposed that the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission transfer the warehouses to the jurisdiction of Glavprodukta. From 3 to 20 December this proposal remained without a response. On 20 December Narkomprод appealed on this question to the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence. The present letter from V. I. Lenin was directed to F. E. Dzerzhinsky in connection with the communication from Narkomprод.